31.   Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has consistently refused the demands of the hostage-takers.

32.   A few days later, ETA kidnapped a young ruling party politician, Miguel Angel Blanco, and fatally wounded him when the government refused demands to move prisoners.

33.   According to the agency, Cem refused demands that international monitors be present at the trial, saying Turkey is not a colony.

34.   Airport manager Atanas Atanasov said the hijacker threatened to detonate a bomb if his demand to fly to Oslo were refused.

35.   An international military force built up in the Gulf earlier this year after Iraq refused U.N. demands for weapons inspectors to be allowed access to sites in Iraq.

36.   Britain has so far refused the demands, arousing fears among the several thousand members of ethnic minorities that they will become stateless.

37.   Buchanan has refused the demand saying the funds are intended to compensate police for putting their lives at risk.

38.   But he refused a demand by Hamas, his main opposition, to accept responsibility for the clashes until the commission makes its findings.

39.   Bush and Powell expressed regret over the loss of the Chinese pilot, though both refused Chinese demands for an apology.

40.   But he has refused demands for an independence ballot.